You did good my brother. I hope the owner of the slaughterhouse is really honest and does what he says. People must think about slaughterhouses and what they represent on an unthinking planet. They represent murder for hire, although people will not see that unless they are told. On this planet, how many deaths a year from war? How many deaths a year from slaughter? Killing by any other name.

... People must think about slaughterhouses and what they represent on an unthinking planet.

Most adults in the USA know about slaughter houses.

They represent murder for hire....

Since it's not humans being killed it is not murder. They kill animals so that we can eat, and enjoy, their dead flesh.

Dave - Just a Man in the Mountains.

"I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men."― Robert G. Ingersoll,

"I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men."― Robert G. Ingersoll,

So, why is this story important? Who cares if one brave cow managed to escape the horrors of a slaughterhouse? All a cow is good for is to make hamburgers and steaks, right?

Well, I vehemently disagree. Slaughterhouses are chambers of horror where innocent creatures are forced to endure pain and suffering which we humans could not possibly imagine.

This cow that managed to get away is a hero and should be applauded for her bravery in doing this. I only hope that the owner of the slaughterhouse really was serious when he said she would in future be spared.

If only all the other cattle and pigs and chickens and turkeys and sheep and lambs could be spared as well. But humans' appetite for meat always overrides any and all considerations of what the getting of that meat entails.

Consider that an animal being forced into a slaughterhouse can not only smell the fear in the animals that are going on before her, but she can also hear their cries, and sometimes even see them being killed.

After all, our fellow animals have much better senses of smell and hearing than humans.

It takes 25 minutes to turn a cow into a steak. Even though the animals were supposed to be dead by the time they reached the second-legger (the slaughterhouse worker who cuts off the feet of the cow), too often they are still alive.

As one slaughterhouse worker described it: 'Their eyes are wide open and they blink. They make noises.' Some of them are still alive when they reach the tail puller, the belly ripper, and the hide puller.

"I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men."― Robert G. Ingersoll,

What we'r seeing here is, in my opinion, some anthropomorphism. Anyway, like mountainman, I'll say if that cow ran onto my land it might end up filling my freezer with good things to eat from pats o it, and some excellent, new leather for oher uses.

A cow running away rom a slaughterhouse, or a pig, or chicken or turkey, is simply making its meat more lean.